An anthrapyrazole derivative STK663786 has been identified as a selective ligand of the socalled 430-cavity of influenza virus neuraminidase at virtual screening of a library of low-molecularweight compounds. It is ab...
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A group of variously colored proteins belonging to the green fAuorescent protein(GFP)family are responsible for coloring coral *** of the Great Barrier Reef were studied with the custom-built fiber laser fluorescence ...
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A group of variously colored proteins belonging to the green fAuorescent protein(GFP)family are responsible for coloring coral *** of the Great Barrier Reef were studied with the custom-built fiber laser fluorescence *** analysis showed that most of the excarmined corals contained multiple fuorescent peaks ranging from 470 to *** obser-vation was attributed to the presence of multiple genes of GFP-like proteins in a single coral,as well as by the photo-induced post-translational modifcations of certain GFP-like *** isolated a novel photo-convertible fuorescent protein(FP)from one of the tested ***:propose that two processes may explain the observed diversity of the fuorescent spectra in corals:(1)dark post-translational modifcation(maturation),and(2)color photo-conversion of certain maturated proteins in response to sunlight.
We present a novel method for model-based segmentation of extended, blob-like objects on curved surfaces. Our method addresses several challenges arising when imaging curved biological membrane, such as out-of-membran...
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We present a novel method for model-based segmentation of extended, blob-like objects on curved surfaces. Our method addresses several challenges arising when imaging curved biological membrane, such as out-of-membrane signal and geometry-induced background variations. We use a particle-based reconstruction of the membrane geometry, moment-conserving intensity interpolation from pixels to surface particles, and model-based in-surface segmentation. Our method denoises and deconvolves images, corrects for background variations, and quantifies the number, size, and intensity of segmented objects. We benchmark the accuracy of the method and present two applications to (1) neuroepithelial focal adhesion sites during optic cup morphogenesis in zebrafish and (2) reconstituted membrane domains bearing the small GTPase Rab5 on spherical beads.
Background As the evolution of miRNA genes has been found to be one of the important factors in formation of the modern type of man, we performed a comparative analysis of the evolution of miRNA genes in two archaic h...
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Background As the evolution of miRNA genes has been found to be one of the important factors in formation of the modern type of man, we performed a comparative analysis of the evolution of miRNA genes in two archaic hominines, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens denisova, and elucidated the expression of their target mRNAs in bain. Results A comparative analysis of the genomes of primates, including species in the genus Homo, identified a group of miRNA genes having fixed substitutions with important implications for the evolution of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens denisova. The mRNAs targeted by miRNAs with mutations specific for Homo sapiens denisova exhibited enhanced expression during postnatal brain development in modern humans. By contrast, the expression of mRNAs targeted by miRNAs bearing variations specific for Homo sapiens neanderthalensis was shown to be enhanced in prenatal brain development. Conclusions Our results highlight the importance of changes in miRNA gene sequences in the course of Homo sapiens denisova and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis evolution. The genetic alterations of miRNAs regulating the spatiotemporal expression of multiple genes in the prenatal and postnatal brain may contribute to the progressive evolution of brain function, which is consistent with the observations of fine technical and typological properties of tools and decorative items reported from archaeological Denisovan sites. The data also suggest that differential spatial-temporal regulation of gene products promoted by the subspecies-specific mutations in the miRNA genes might have occurred in the brains of Homo sapiens denisova and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, potentially contributing to the cultural differences between these two archaic hominines.
Interphase chromatin in animals is constrained by interactions with the nuclear lamina (NL) - a protein mesh lining nuclear envelope and composed from lamins and lamin-associated proteins. About 30% of chromatin is lo...
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(纸本)9781538654897;9781538654880
Interphase chromatin in animals is constrained by interactions with the nuclear lamina (NL) - a protein mesh lining nuclear envelope and composed from lamins and lamin-associated proteins. About 30% of chromatin is located near the NL in a living cell forming densely packed lamina-associated domains (LADs). LADs largely overlap with topologically-associating domains (TADs) build up from repressed chromatin, and contain predominately inactive genes, thus playing a role in transcription regulation. Here, we show that the NL disruption in Drosophila leads to en mass chromatin compactisation and redistribution towards the nuclear interior. This results in an increase of contact frequency between active and repressed fractions of the genome accompanied by the transcription upregulation in LADs. A subset of TADs characterized by high level of LADs become less compact, that could be driven by the loss of interactions with the nuclear envelope as revealed by polymer modelling. These results indicate that the NL in Drosophila cells plays a role in the specific spatial positioning of the chromatin inside the nucleus, its compartmentalization and at least partially controls the packaging density and low-level transcription in LADs.
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to classify the spectrogram zeros (SZs) of multicomponent signals based on the analysis of the Voronoï cells associated with these zeros. More precisely, the characteriz...
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In this paper, we propose a novel approach to classify the spectrogram zeros (SZs) of multicomponent signals based on the analysis of the Voronoï cells associated with these zeros. More precisely, the characterization of the distribution of the spectrogram maxima of a complex white Gaussian noise along the edges of the Voronoï cells associated with SZs enables us to derive an algorithm to classify the different types of zeros present in the spectrogram of a multicomponent signal. Numerical applications on simulated signals confirm the relevance of the proposed classification algorithm, and an illustration on a real signal concludes the paper.
Antibodies are responsible for antigen recognition in vertebrate organisms. Practically any molecule can be bound by antibodies. In this work structures of 73 complexes of antibodies with small antigens were taken fro...
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Antibodies are responsible for antigen recognition in vertebrate organisms. Practically any molecule can be bound by antibodies. In this work structures of 73 complexes of antibodies with small antigens were taken from PDB database and compared. The main epitope of studied ligands was an aromatic ring. Antibodies bound it with a deep cavity, lying between complementary determining regions (CDR) H3 and L3 and formed by aromatic residues. In most cases the aromatic ring of ligand was placed parallel to one or two aromatic sidechains of binding site at 3.5-4 Angstrom distance. This disposition of aromatic rings is a sign of the presence of pi-stacking. It was found that small ligands with aromatics area percentage > 36% predominantly form pi-stacking interaction with antibodies. Most often this interaction was observed for residues in positions H33, H95, L32 and L93.
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